Group: sci.physics.particle
From: "Autymn D. C."
Date: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 9:07 PM
Subject: Re: Another brick in the wall: There's no relativistic mass

On Aug 29, 6:48 pm, "Pmb" wrote:
> "Autymn D. C." wrote in messagenews: @ ...
>
>
>
> > On Jul 6, 6:44 pm, "Pmb" wrote:
> >> testing a set of 165 people to see who would get his question correct.
> >> The
> >> question pertained as to whether the weight of a moving body increases
> >> with
> >> speed. He is all for mass = proper mass and this is the term in which he
> >> thinks in. Due to this he made an error in his assumption as to whether a
> >> moving body weighs more than the same body at rest. The purpose of
> >> examining
> >> weight is because passive gravitational mass "m" is related to weight "W"
> >> by
> >> W = mg. Thus an increase in weight implies an increase in passive
> >> gravitational mass, which has the same value as inertial mass (aka
> >> relativistic mass).
>
> > massum = weiht
> > pondum = heft
>
> If this was supposed to be a clever play in words then you lost me.

Gravitational forse is heft, as in heaviness, that which one heaves.
Inertial cargo is weiht, therefore.